Posts tagged with 'Kerry'

Geraldine & John, Sitting in a Tree

POSTED BY CHRIS BROUSSARD, MARCH 21 2008 03:43 AM | PERMALINK

Geraldine Ferraro is talking to the Daily Breeze again
this week, objecting to Obama's equivocation between her and Jeremiah Wright. "To equate what I said with what this racist bigot has said from the pulpit is unbelievable. ... He gave a very good speech on race relations, but he did not address the fact that this man is up there spewing hatred."

Here's what Obama said:

"On one end of the spectrum, we've heard the implication that my candidacy is somehow an exercise in affirmative action; that it's...
Taser Video

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, SEPTEMBER 19 2007 12:23 PM | PERMALINK

By now, everyone knows about the University of Florida student who was tasered during Kerry's speech yesterday, and now comes the video. I really debated whether to put this up because you see very little, but I think it's important to hear it and discuss. Where are we that a non-violent student asking a legitimate question (why Kerry admitted defeat in 2000) can get tasered at an American university? How do we reconcile that type of punitive retalliation? (And is Florida still on edge...
TPMtv: Sunday Show Roundup: Enter Petraeus

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, SEPTEMBER 10 2007 12:28 PM | PERMALINK

Sunday Show Roundup: Enter Petraeus

Today is the day. No longer can a politician evade a question about the quagmire in Iraq with, "Let's wait until September." Today we hear from General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker about exactly where we stand in Iraq with the both the military and political components of the troop surge implemented by President Bush at the start of 2007. We took a look through the Sunday morning talk shows to see what we might expect from the Iraq progress report.
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